Solar panels or solar flannels?
The laudable aims of the Solar Trade Association’s “Strict Code of Ethical Practice” include “To maintain and enhance the reputation of the STA and its members.” High tone stuff indeed! So does the STA comply with its own code? Does it in fact enhance its reputation?
You decide.
On top of what seemed [...]

Solar Twin Offers Fixed Prices For Solar Electric Installations starting at £9,999
Today Solar Twin Ltd announces that to make life easy for UK consumers it is offering fixed price solar electric (photovoltaic installations) from only £9,999. Here are some examples of our prices for fully commissioned Solartwin Solar Electric PV (Photovoltaic) installations:

System
Peak
Size
Installed price. including VAT [...]

If you think that DIY solar heating has been discriminated against and excluded from state subsidy for too long, read on! There are two main “market distortions” as the European Commissioners whould call them, VAT and grants.
A – The VAT penalty – in UK, for example DIY solar kits face 17.5% VAT in UK when [...]

175 Solartwin solar water heating panels are being installed on Code 3 new build properties c/o Bournville Village Trust and developer Kier Partnership Homes. Read more about here about Bournville Village Trust (and the Solartwin news features in all the latest editions of Northern Housing, Midlands Housing and Southern Housing magazines.)
The Code for Sustainable Homes [...]

“Brokenhagen” Copenhagen climate change summit fails – says Friends of the Earth
“The developed world, which has done most to create this crisis, must face up to its global responsibilites.”
What a ******* shambles.

Solar panels news: Thursday 10 December 2009.
“Disruptive technology” solar water heating innovation gains UK grants recognition.
An innovative solar water heating system which delivers three improvements on traditional solar heating technology (the improvements are financial, environmental and safety) has this week been accepted as valid for solar panel grants in UK. The company behind the innovation, [...]

Breaking news on Government solar grants.
Details and useful links on how to apply for grants for solar heating.
Call us for your grant quote on 01244 403 407 now!
On the first day of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, Solar Twin Ltd received official notification that Solartwin zero carbon solar water heating installations are now eligible [...]

Watch the video here! Solartwin are working on a several technical innovations in 2009-10. Here is news of one. It is a revolutionary “thermal step change” thermochromic solar collector which, if successful, will change the global face of solar heating forever. Volunteers (from existing Solartwin DIY customers) are sought for field trials where two prototype [...]

Solar water heating grants update 6th November 2009.
Today the UK’s regulatory gateway to solar thermal grants, the Microgeneration Certification Scheme, published historic changes which permit solar hot water heating installations to be retrofitted to existing hot water cylinders. Such installations were previously excluded from grant aid. The Solartwin presentation to MCS which helped to deliver [...]

Solar news 1 November 2009.
“We anticipate a massive increase in trade orders for solar heating systems over the next 12 months, thanks to UK’s national solar heating regulators taking a brave decision to widen the solar market at a key meeting last month” commented Barry Johnston, Managing Director of Solar Twin Ltd, today. “Much of [...]